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AFME backs EU Council and European Parliament’s provisional CSDR agreement
27 June 2023 Europe
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

The proposed law aims to reduce the financial and regulatory burden on central securities depositories and improve their ability to operate across borders, while also strengthening financial stability

ESMA defines its five-year data strategy
16 June 2023 EU
Reporter: AST

The EU securities market regulator focuses on fostering effective markets and financial stability, strengthening EU financial supervision and improving protection for retail investors in its 2023-28 data programme

ESMA releases greenwashing progress report
02 June 2023 France
Reporter: Lucy Carter

The publication is part of the European Supervisory Authorities’ efforts to ensure a high-level understanding of greenwashing across the financial industry

ESMA releases its fifth CCP stress testing exercise
01 June 2023 EU, UK
Reporter: Bob Currie

In line with ESMA’s legal mandate under EMIR, this exercise will assess the resilience of CCPs to adverse market shocks and the danger that failure of a CCP or clearing member can propagate risk across the financial system

ESMA goes live with DLT pilot
23 March 2023 Europe
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The pilot builds on the existing MiFIR regulation to include tokenised financial instruments. This aims to bring pre- and post-trade transparency and market abuse monitoring to DLT-based securities

EFAMA advises against ESMA’s ESG fund naming guidelines
24 February 2023 Belgium
Reporter: Lucy Carter

EFAMA has expressed concern around ESMA's proposed approach to the use of ESG and sustainability-related terms when naming funds

ESMA provides comment on Europe’s sustainability reporting standards
27 January 2023 France
Reporter: Lucy Carter

ESMA has stated that EFRAG's first draft of European Sustainability Reporting Standards is ‘broadly capable’ of meeting investor protection and financial stability objectives

ESMA to launch review on the application of MiFID II disclosure rules
17 January 2023 Europe
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

As part of the CSA, to be conducted over the course of 2023, NCAs will review whether marketing communications,(including advertisements), are fair, clear and non-misleading and how firms select the target audience for the marketing communications

ESMA recommends ISO-standard DTI codes for DLT pilot
11 January 2023 France
Reporter: Lucy Carter

The authority has recommended ISO-standard digital token identifier codes for use in its distributed ledger technology pilot regulatory regime, which comes into force 23 March 2023

ESMA publishes AIF and UCITS standards report
23 December 2022 Europe
Reporter: Lucy Carter

ESMA has published a final report on the technical standards for the cross-border activities of AIFs and UCITS

ESMA issues guidance on DLT-based market infrastructure
16 December 2022 EU
Reporter: Bob Currie

These guidelines provide templates for applications to operate any form of DLT market infrastructure under the DLT Pilot Regulation, including a DLT MTF, a DLT settlement system or a DLT trading and settlement system

European financial authorities gather evidence on greenwashing
16 November 2022 Europe
Reporter: Bob Currie

ESMA, EBA and EIOPA have launched a call for information closing on 10 January, recognising that a better understanding of greenwashing practices will help to inform policy making and strengthen sustainability-related claims in financial services